About The Work
In this self-portrait, Chuck Close collaborated with Two Palms to produce an anamorphosis, a trick of distortion dating back to the Renaissance that challenges traditional linear perspective. The portrait is unrecognizable from a viewpoint in front of the picture; the stretched-out image can only be "read" from the reflection in a cylindrical mirror. Anamorphic technology has been used to correct astigmatisms in ophthalmology, to film wide-screen motion pictures, and to adjust the distortions of aerial reconnaissance photography. Contemporary artists have used it for conceptual reasons: to question the meaning of perception and the authority of the frontal gaze.
Courtesy of Two Palms
About Chuck Close
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Invite a Few New Faces Into Your home Via Contemporary Portraiture
- Interviews & Features: Chuck Close in Conversation with Vija Celmins About Her Dense Yet Infinite Drawings
- Interviews & Features: Picasso Is Sexy Cheesecake: How Scientists Are Using Evolutionary Theory to Demystify the Allure of Art
- Art 101: How to Make It in the Art World: 10 Quotes on Creative Success From the World’s Greatest Artists
- Art 101: How Do Today's Art Stars Make Prints? Master Printer Erik Hougen Explains an Intimate Form of Collaboration
16 color silkscreen on Tosahanga paper, polished stainless steel cylinder, and maple wooden box/platform.
11.25 x 27.00 x 27.00 in
28.6 x 68.6 x 68.6 cm
This work is signed in pencil on border. It comes with a certificate of authenticity.
About The Work
In this self-portrait, Chuck Close collaborated with Two Palms to produce an anamorphosis, a trick of distortion dating back to the Renaissance that challenges traditional linear perspective. The portrait is unrecognizable from a viewpoint in front of the picture; the stretched-out image can only be "read" from the reflection in a cylindrical mirror. Anamorphic technology has been used to correct astigmatisms in ophthalmology, to film wide-screen motion pictures, and to adjust the distortions of aerial reconnaissance photography. Contemporary artists have used it for conceptual reasons: to question the meaning of perception and the authority of the frontal gaze.
Courtesy of Two Palms
About Chuck Close
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Invite a Few New Faces Into Your home Via Contemporary Portraiture
- Interviews & Features: Chuck Close in Conversation with Vija Celmins About Her Dense Yet Infinite Drawings
- Interviews & Features: Picasso Is Sexy Cheesecake: How Scientists Are Using Evolutionary Theory to Demystify the Allure of Art
- Art 101: How to Make It in the Art World: 10 Quotes on Creative Success From the World’s Greatest Artists
- Art 101: How Do Today's Art Stars Make Prints? Master Printer Erik Hougen Explains an Intimate Form of Collaboration
Published by Two Palms, NY.
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